1. Early cinema 1890s - 1913 1890s Edison’s Kinetoscope 1895-1905 Lumières Late 1890s Méliès makes first films 1902 - Melies’s Trip to the Moon 1904 -1912 experiments with narrative By about 1913 - narrative system established

2. Some popular types of early films Actualities, Travel logs Stories based upon current events Blue Movies & Pornography for Peep shows Trick films Gag or physical humor films

3. Méliès - Interested in appearance and disappearance - The ability of cinema to make things visible/invisible - Used camera like a magic trick -Films play with presence and absence -Also, thematize technology and machine- produce images

4. Méliès - Subversion of natural order of things, materiality, -Upsets hierarchies of nature, physics, gender, class -Irreverent stance towards science -Mocks/quotes travel logs, actualities

5. Méliès vs the Lumières The magician The documenters Fantasy/ Sci-FiRealism Mise-en-scene Photographic base TrickeryRecording life special fx Creative Purely manipulationobservational -deforming the real-respect for the real

6. The Shot

7. Diegesis = the total world of the film’s story

8. Diegetic vs. Non-Diegetic

9. On-Screen Space and Off-Screen Space

10. Méliès vs. The Lumière Bros.

11. AUTARKY or UNICITY of the frame

12. Non-Centered Quality of the Image

13. Camera Distance (almost always a medium-long shot)

14. Non-closure and a Fundamental Non-linearity

15. FRONTALITY